State v. Rojas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McFarland, C.J.:

In 1986, Jose I. Rojas was charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder and two counts of aggravated kidnapping in connection with the shooting deaths of Alice Schmidt (his girlfriend) and her acquaintance AM Ahmed. In 1987, as a result of a plea agreement, defendant pled guilty to one aggravated kidnapping charge and two second-degree murder charges. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the aggravated kidnapping conviction and 15 years to life on each of the second-degree murder convictions. The sentences were to be…